PREMIERE: Watch the fear leave your body in a conceptual new music video from Turan

Published on 20 January 2017

Turan is a multi-instrumentalist artist from east London. In a similar vein to Seal or Twin Shadow, his music is emotive, experimental and a jolt of electricity to our more spiritual and introspective nature.

Premiering on Hunger today is the new music video for the track “Fear”. Directed by Real Good Liars, the sonic-visual concept concerns our externalisations of fear and the mental gymnastics we can do to overcome it. Turan explains “the video takes the idea of fear and brings it outside of the body. It’s when the character actually names the fear for what it is, that he begins to master this entity that is holding him back, and holds it in his hand. By naming the fear one can use the fear, and as you see in the video; when you take control you can hold your fear in the palm of your hands, and it disappears. It represents the fear never actually being real, it was always in the mind.”

In ostensibly dark and turbulent times, Turan’s music can repurpose our fears and anxieties into something positive. This welcomed idea is illustrated by the progressive digital designs of Real Good Liars (who worked on the unmissable anime-Simpsons crossover Bartkira) who explored fear as an antithesis to love – “”Love” is such a frequent lyrical theme in popular music, and “Fear” is so rarely discussed – it’s a really unusual and personal take. Something about the rather cryptic story really struck us, and we tried to build on that to create a visual metaphor for the psychological narrative as it unfolds, while retaining a little of the mystery that we love so much about this track.”

Follow Turan on Twitter here and check his Soundcloud below. Get in touch with Real Good Liars here.